ABC GreenLeft propaganda can not mention HazelwoodReading down the ABC page time and again I am thinking – “mention the Hazelwood minus 1600MW that Vic has next summer compared to last” – But no – Hazelwood is never mentioned. The author also never makes the link to NSW that just survived a blackout on 10 Feb this year. So next summer … Continue reading ABC GreenLeft propaganda can not mention Hazelwood →

My Climate Plan, Wherein a Climate Skeptic Actually Advocates for A Carbon TaxI am always amazed at how people like to draw conclusions about what I write merely from the title, without actually reading everything I wrote. This is cross-posted from Coyote Blog, where I already am getting accusations of selling out. Please read before judging. I have proposed a carbon tax in a way that would […]

US Average Temperature Trends in ContextCross-posted from Coyoteblog. There was some debate a while back around about a temperature chart some Conservative groups were passing around. Obviously, on this scale, global warming does not look too scary. The question is, is this scale at all relevant? I could re-scale the 1929 stock market drop to a chart that goes from […]

Revisiting (Yet Again) Hansen’s 1998 Forecast on Global Warming to CongressI want to briefly revisit Hansen’s 1998 Congressional forecast. Yes, I and many others have churned over this ground many times, but I think I now have a better approach. The typical approach has been to overlay some actual temperature data set on top of Hansen’s forecast (e.g. here). The problem is that with […]

Matt Ridley: What the Climate Wars Did to ScienceI cannot recommend Matt Ridley’s new article strongly enough. It covers a lot of ground be here are a few highlights. Ridley argues that science generally works (in a manner entirely parallel to how well-functioning commercial markets work) because there are generally incentives to challenge hypotheses. I would add that if anything, the incentives tend […]

Manual Adjustments in the Temperature RecordI have been getting inquiries from folks asking me what I think about stories like this one, where Paul Homewood has been looking at the manual adjustments to raw temperature data and finding that the adjustments actually reverse the trends from cooling to warming. Here is an example of the comparisons he did: Raw, before […]

Mistaking Cyclical Variations for the TrendI titled my very first climate video “What is Normal,” alluding to the fact that climate doomsayers argue that we have shifted aspects of the climate (temperature, hurricanes, etc.) from “normal” without us even having enough historical perspective to say what “normal” is. A more sophisticated way to restate this same point would be to […]

Typhoons and Hurricanes(Cross-posted from Coyoteblog) The science that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and causes some warming is hard to dispute. The science that Earth is dominated by net positive feedbacks that increase modest greenhouse gas warming to catastrophic levels is very debatable. The science that man’s CO2 is already causing an increase in violent and severe […]

Those Who Follow Climate Will Definitely Recognize ThisThis issue will be familiar to anyone who has spent time with temperature graphs. We can ask ourselves if 1 degree of global warming is a lot, when it is small compared to seasonal variations, or even intra-day variation, you would find in most locations. That is not a trick question. It might be important, […]

Layman’s Primer on the Climate Skeptic PositionI am a “lukewarmer”, which means a skeptic that agrees that man-made CO2 is incrementally warming the Earth but believes that the amount of that warming is being greatly exaggerated. In addition, I believe that the science behind evidence of current “climate change” is really poor, with folks in the media using observations of tail-of-the-distribution weather […]